Count me as a fan of early Elaine…of this AND that.

Don't be sad. The truth is that there were fewer entertainment choices available to people…and less information about what choices there were.

COULDN'T stop!

In the pursuit of offering access to nearly everything in pop cultural history, we've lost the idea of a dominant popular culture. With more choices comes less common ground—the Top 40 is not "what everyone listens to", what's on the broadcast networks is not "what everyone is watching"…and hell, even "the news" is…

I'm ok with the Jaws franchise coming up a bit short…

Didn't seem to be a lot of available, attractive women in his age range in Broadchurch.

There are four scenes with Paul & Becca on the deleted scenes part of the Region 2 DVD.

Joe's "passiveness" is part of who he is…the rationalizations…

There are deleted scenes on the DVD with Paul & Becca that you'll appreciate.

There is a great deleted scene from this episode on the DVD set. (Get yourself a region-free DVD player and start shopping Amazon.co.uk, folks. You'll be glad you did.) It doesn't spoil anything, so I'll share what it was here…

Very Waters of Mars!

That's a fair cop.

How hard is it to get two hotel rooms? How hard is it to get a hotel room with separate beds? How hard is it for Ellie Miller to say "NO! I'm not going to drive you to Sandbrook, you stupid man. Especially when you're not telling me everything. My home town now not only think of me as the worst cop in the world…

Did anyone else notice that in the official BBC announcement that they would not be renewing Jeremy Clarkson's contract for Top Gear (due to his punching out and berating a Top Gear producer) that BBC General Director Tony Hall said this:

Beth is your number one? Just because she doesn't want to be around Ellie Miller any more?

Although there were lots of entwining storylines and red herrings to sift through, I never rolled my eyes at first season Broadchurch. The melodrama and convolutions somehow seemed organic…and the characters stayed true to themselves.

Still a comedy.

So, you're saying "Girls" then?

I guess that doesn't bode well for Anne Hathaway and her portable laboratory of fertilized eggs if Matthew McConaughey can't track her down.

That's a hell of a kick, GoochExtension. Definitely wake up from a dream when THAT happens—no matter whether the top stops spinning or not.